Maybe someone should hire Joe Biden to teach philosophy, or […]

It will be many years before we get a full and accurate measure of the repercussions of America's humiliating exit from Afghanistan, but this much we know. It has gravely damaged the already tottering administration of Joe Biden. It has disconcerted US allies and emboldened enemies.  And it has marked another waypoint on the 'melancholy, long, withdrawing roar' of US power

This is supposed to be a New York letter, but […]

In about three weeks, maybe four, it will all be over and many people will feel sheepish about their overreaction to the Wuhan virus. In the meantime, on the theory that no crisis should go to waste, the usual suspects are attempting to weaponize the government against freedom, just as Obama's Democrats did during the GFC

Nigel Farage was doused recently with a milkshake, which not only ruined a nice suit but highlighted the mania of the Left. Brexit, Trump, the ascension of Boris Johnson -- for so-called progressives these aren't manifestions of the democratic will but incitements to a galloping lunacy

If Donald Trump manages to unravel the prerogatives and power of the bureaucratic elite whose rules and regulations reach deep into the interstices of everyday life to hamper initiative, stymie independence and stifle originality, he will have fulfilled his most important campaign promise

Hillary Clinton’s health had long been an issue, but chiefly amongst those who have long maintained she is unfit in more than a physical sense to take up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Her latest episode has makes it a mainstream fixation

Aristotle tells us that tragedians value probable impossibilities over improbable possibilities. It is possible Mexico, China, Iran and all others Donald Trump proposes to bend to his will will acquiesce in his ambition to “make America great again”. But let us acknowledge it is supremely improbable

The suffocating sense of guilt that afflicts university life has beenwhipped into a cocktail of self-congratulation, on the one hand, and menacing intolerance, on the other. Doubtless it portends many things, but support for liberal education or liberal society, properly understood, is not among them